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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOAN ON THE PRARIE, by MARY F. COCHRANE
First Line: O god, I work and watch here all day long
Last Line: Hard sticks by noon -- death's bones, come night!
Subject(s): Despair
First Line: O god, I work and watch here all day long
Last Line: Hard sticks by noon -- death's bones, come night!
Subject(s): Despair
O God, I work and watch here all day long,
My tears no sooner fallen than dried quite
By air that sears. O steely gray at dawn,
O yellow heat by noon -- brass glare, come night!
God, now I sit and listen all day long.
I hear, with tearless eyes turned from the light,
I hear the planting, rustling dry at dawn,
Hard sticks by noon -- death's bones, come night!
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